Great news on the iphone front. Some great new features in 3.0 coming to the iphone 3G as a free upgrade this Summer. Made me think of two things – one, I’m pretty sure that may well coincide with a h/w refresh, and two, what things do I feel it’s still missing!

Hardware wise….what would I want to make me upgrade early (if that’s possible with my contract)…more space! 32GB would be great. Obviously, the more the better but 32GB would give me enough room for all my music, some videos and loads of apps.

Next – better camera. I’m not asking for anything with loads more megapixels. Just something that gives sharper photos and ideally with a flash!! Something that could do quality video would be very nice – I know jailbroken ones can do 15fps, but something with 25fps, decent quality and the ability for devs to plug into the API so you can upload videos to the web would be amazing.

Lastly – better battery life. This isn’t a big one for me. I charge it everyday, so I’ve never been in a situation when I run out of juice. At the very least it would be nice to get a bit more juice to cover any more power needed for push notifications. Even better would be the ability to go a few days without a charge, even with relatively heavy usage. I could live without that though.

Software-wise? There’s so much great stuff in 3.0. People I’m sure will rave about copy and paste, but I’ve rarely found myself in the situation where I was wishing I had the ability to do it. Turn by turn maps will be very useful, but the great thing is now 3rd parties will be able to create hardware add-ons or talk to 3rd party hardware via bluetooth to bolster any features or give you new ones. In the example of turn by turn GPS – I have my doubts that the iphone GPS is sensitive enough to replace a TomTom – but if that was the case, TomTom can bring out some new hardware that plugs in the bottom which contains a much more suitable GPS receiver, and maybe even a flash drive that contains all the maps you need – no need to waste your iphone storage…or even a receiver/flashdrive which communicates via bluetooth. It may even be possible to plug more storage in the bottom of the iphone for the times when you need a library of films to watch and don’t have enough space for them! I’m sure we’ll see some very cool new products on the horizon. Features like peer to peer comms makes things even more interesting!

So – things missing? Well, none of these are definitely not in the product – we probably won’t know until the devs have a good look at the new API but three that come to mind are wifi syncing, video recording app possibility and flash support (although when asked, Apple said “We have no announcements on Flash today”…the same answer they said when asked about an Apple netbook…interesting… There’s still hope on those features.

One of the smaller features I’m looking forward to is caldav support – if I could sync over wifi, or over the air, the iphone calendar with the gmail calendar I’d be very happy indeed!